IP: How to increase corporate productivity overnight...

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 16:05:29 -0400
From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>


From: qotd-request@ensu.ucalgary.ca (Quote of the day)
 
An item from today's San Jose Mercury News, an interview with Scott
McNealy, Sun Microsystems's CEO.
 
 Q. How do you see that [corporate culture] changing over the next 15 years; 
   is there anything that you definitely would not welcome? 
 
 A. ... We had 12.9 gigabytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I
   thought, "What a huge waste of corporate productivity." So we banned
   it.  And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters
   since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in
   the world, if it would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings
   skyrocket.  Employees would stand around going, "What do I do?  Guess
   I've got to go to work."


Submitted by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com> Aug. 3, 1997
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